1, Petersburg
St. Petersburg, located in northwestern Russia, the Baltic Sea coast, the mouth of the Neva River, is Russia's central municipality, the capital of the Leningrad Region, the center of Russia's northwestern region of the central city, the whole of Russia's important land and water transportation hub, the world's population of more than a million cities in the location of one of the most northerly, is also known as Russia's "Capital of the North".
2, Moscow
Moscow (Moscow), is the capital of the Russian Federation, the capital of Moscow State. Moscow is Russia's political, economic, cultural, financial and transportation center as well as the largest comprehensive city, is an international metropolis.
3, Ekaterinburg
Ekaterinburg was founded in 1723, named after Empress Ekaterina I. It is the center of the Urals Federal District of Russia. It is the center of the Urals Federal District, the capital of Sverdlovsk Oblast, and an important industrial, transportation, trade, scientific and cultural center of the Urals and the Russian Federation.
4, Irkutsk
Irkutsk (Иркутск) is the capital of Irkutsk Oblast, Russia, with more than 300 years of urban history, is the largest industrial city in Siberia, transportation and trade hubs, but also the second largest city in Eastern Siberia. Irkutsk is located at the southern end of Lake Baikal and is the closest city to Lake Baikal, at the confluence of the Angara and Irkutsk rivers.
5, Khabarovsk
Khabarovsk, originally a territory belonging to China, which is called Buri. Located on the east bank of the Heilongjiang and Ussuri rivers, it is a medium-sized city that became the administrative center of the Russian Far East Federal District in 2002.